
The wedding day has arrived. In the family residence, it is so crowded to gather all relatives and invited guests from all walks of life.
The Rayan family had also come with their troops. Puspa was ready in his room, wrapped in white kebaya complete with his crown.
"Are you ready, Puspa?" ask Ayu who approached him.
Neither Sora nor Puspa, they do not have many friends or close friends. Sora is too critical in making friends, he also does not like when someone claims to be a friend and approaches him just because of Sang Papi. But, if it wasn't for that, people wouldn't want to go near him.
So too with Puspa. He had always been attached to Sora all this time. He has no other friends, because they always use him to use Sora. Not just girlfriends, men are like that. Just use Puspa to get close to Sora.
"And now, I finally have to get back to protecting you. I'll marry Rayan and use your name there. I know it's sinful, but... This is all I can do." Inner Puspa.
He then took Ayu to get out, approaching Rayan for their Qabul Ijab.
" Is this legal?" ask Puspa to Ayu.
" I don't know. I can't say anything about this. If there was a chance to talk, it would be limited. You know better, 'cause you've been in this house longer." Ayu replied, with her flat face.
Puspa just went back to silence, he knew exactly Ayu's position in the house. He is a son-in-law, but his voice is almost never heard. His job is to take care of Akito, and occasionally to the Mental Hospital to control his in-laws who are treated there. It is no different from the actual puspa, only different from the status in the family, but their duties and authority are very similar no different. Still grateful if her husband does not then throw himself just because of one mistake he did.
" My position is not like you. Only a Babu, under the guise of the wife of the eldest son of this family. The difference is, I have to have a child for his successor." Ayu added.
Now they are among the guests. Puspa sat right next to Rayan, and was ready to listen to their never-planned qabul. Even anyone they've never known before.
"I don't want to play with marriage." said Rayan to him who focused on staring at the penghulu in front of his eyes.
"You think I want to? I'm just Babu here. I can't even say no to this family." replied Puspa as such.
All the process was done by the two of them, until finally, the qabul was spoken. Puspa could only cry over everything so deeply while Rayan just stared at him sharply as if feeling the pain and pain of the current puspa.
"This woman. It's just a family tool. He's innocent, and I shouldn't hate him. Only until the sora returns will everything go back to normal?" rayan murmured in his heart.
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"Aaaah, this feeling. Why isn't it delicious like this? I had breakfast, even had a shower. But why is it still uncomfortable." muttered Sora, who continued to hold and stroke his chest.
"Why you?" ask Niji who approached her.
"Papa NGO... It doesn't taste good. I think there's something else, but I don't know." replied Sora.
They're just the three with Lila at home. Papa and Mama Niji are in the hospital, as today there is a visit for Kaka Niji. Bik Mun came along, because it had to help to bathe his bachelor there. Since childhood, Ryuji was closest to Bik Mun, and did not want to be with other caregivers.
"Bec... I'm sorry about yesterday. Because it's bad to think of you" said Niji.
"Yes, maybe this is how fate people don't have. Always suspected everywhere. Worse, sometimes accused of something they never did at all. Therefore, I until now have never had a temen deket." replied Sora, with a glass of warm milk in his hand.
Sora was like a woman with a lot of trauma, and looked so much that He hid in all her cherries, Hardheartedness, and all the cuckoo that Niji had noticed some time after meeting Sora.
"Yok street." take Niji.
"Where? Such days. Lila's still sleeping."
"Yes, change. Wait for Lila to wake up, have a bath and be beautiful. I brought the bengkulu circumference. There must be a lot that hasn't been visited, right?"
"Yes, I want to go to the beach. Sit back and eat opak with the sate, watch the kids take a beach bath."
"You know, you know, have you been here before?" ask Niji who is getting curious.
"First, Mama was here when I was five. Feel the re-energizing of the memories, as a cure miss to Mama."
"Bec.... Your mama?"
"Udah died, accident. When I was fifteen."
"Owh, sorry." regretted Niji, who accidentally made Sora's eyes glaze over.
"Bah, no papa. Want to dangisin kayak anyway, will not be able to return." But, if you can find out the truth about the accident, surely this heart is getting quiet and sincere.
Niji patted Sora on the shoulder, just to calm her down and soften her. He knew nothing, and could never do anything for him.
The Bayangkara Hospital.
In the ICU room, there lies Ryuji, Niji's brother. Sleep so soundly with all the equipment attached to his body.
The accident happened a few months ago, when Ryuji decided to return home from the escape to his hometown. In the tragedy, he suffered a head injury that was so heavy, although the wound on the body was not too severe. Everyone is suspicious, if he experiences some persecution. Because seeing a wound on the head is like a wound from a blunt object that was deliberately struck on him.
Mr. Rudi asked the police to investigate, but the case was closed because it did not get a bright spot at all. Evidence, traces, and others were never found. If it was really intentional, then the person who did it would have been so professional with it all.
"Bik, let me help her sleep. But diem-diem, huh? Despite sleep, he can certainly be horrified and can be rasain." whispered Ms. Fatma to him.
Bik Mun nodded, and started with his task. Ms. Fatma prepared warm water and washcloth to clean Ryuji's body. Slowly, because despite sleeping, he felt pain in his body. Moreover, there are still bruises that until now have not healed.
In that stocky body, there was a tattoo with a beautiful eye, right on his left arm.
"This is her boyfriend?" ask Bik Mun.
"Maybe, I don't know either. Bibik knows, he never wants to chat even glanced at me." replied Ms. Fatma, with a sad feeling.